Jean PAULHAN. 11 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., [1938-1939], to Maurice Sachs; 16pages in-8 or in-12 (one on postcard), numerous nrf letterheads, 2 addresses (one letter repaired with scotch tape). About Sachs's articles for the Nouvelle Revue Française... "When you want to be 'poetic' [...] or profound [...] or vast and philosophical [...] you are perfectly detestable, with something both ambitious and very naive. When you tell it, it becomes natural, true, tasty"... In 1939, after a lawsuit by the Hugo heirs, he asked Sachs to intervene with Jean Hugo to obtain permission to publish Le Suicide... Advice about Sabbat: "Never intervene definitively. Show yourself or, stupid, dishonest, confused. Let the reader conclude that you are now clear, balanced, perceptive and virtuous. Don't give proof"... Publication of beautiful poems by Aragon. On anti-Semitism: "Anti-Semites must be denied everything, starting with the very principle of Jewish difference (even superiority). I believe that all the "Defenses of the Jews" have served the cause of the anti-Semites. This is because they make this first concession: they admit that the question arises. But it doesn't"...